THE SANITY SCRIPTS
What to say when the screen goes off.
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- The exact words for taking the tablet
- What to say when the other parent undercuts you
- What to say to "I'm bored" (it is not a suggestion)
- And the night you are about to give in
Here's one of them, free.
Turning the screen off
What you need
- Nothing. Just the words.
- Ten minutes before, from across the room: "Ten more minutes, then it's off. Find a good stopping point." That last sentence does most of the work, because it gives them a job.
- At zero: "Time's up. Screens are done. You can be upset. The answer is still done."
- If they push, repeat one line unchanged: "The answer is still done." Same flat tone the third time as the first.
The scienceThe flatness is the message. When a kid escalates, the instinct is to explain more, and explaining more tells them the decision is still open. Then the part people skip: once it is off, say "That was hard, come here," and hand them the next thing. The gap between activities is what causes the crash, so do not leave one.
Four moments. Word for word. Nothing to prep, nothing to print.
What you get
- Scripts for 14 moments, word for word
- An ADHD and autism adaptation on every single one
- 3 printables: the Bored Board, the Six Lines, the One-Number Agreement
- What NOT to say in each moment, and why it backfires
- The honest section on what to do when the script does not work
The single most common complaint in our whole survey was another adult undercutting the rule. 480 parents described it. Almost nobody writes about it.
Questions
Four moments. Word for word. Nothing to prep, nothing to print.